Almost 14 month old refusing day naps eep

[margesimpson]

My little boy has never been a great sleeper - he catnapped for 20-30 mins until 11 months when i finally got him into a proper sleep pattern. Now we're going through the 2-1 transition- or so I thought - but now he refuses both am and pm naps. Maybe he is cutting both out but I think he's too young to go all day. He crashes around 5, I try not to let him sleep more tha 30min (he will usually wake anyway) then it's harder to get him to sleep at night.
I *think* he is a grumpy baby.
How can I help him relax and go to sleep - or should I look at cutting his naps out altogether???

[margesimpson]

Here is his 'routine'
6-7 (or sometimes 5am) wake up
7-7:30 brekky, followed by bottle if needed
play
9-10 morning tea
10:30 - 11 - If he needs it: Nap approx 3/4hr. Sometimes he can make it through till 12ish and have a big nap 1-11/2 hrs, which works out great for the rest of the day, but he has not done this in the past 1-2 weeks
12-1 lunch
play
3:00 nap if needed
5:00 dinner
6:30 or earlier if needed - bottle
7- 7:30 bed

[*Jo*]

Hi there, Im just going to move this over to the Toddler sleep board which is for 12months +

[momtonb&ab]

if he has been waking early i think you probably need to make sure he gets a two nap day - and i would suggest that 5 hours A time before the first nap might be too long if he has had an EW..

how are you doing?

[margesimpson]

Thankyou for your response momtonb&ab. He has a cold now and also a molar coming through so it's thrown everything out. Will ride this week out then hopefully settle in to a better routine next week.

[LucySol]

it might have been the tooth causing the sleep problems so will be interesting to see how he does when that comes thru.
At 14 months we were near to 1 nap.but it helped us to set the naptimes at this point to regulate the day.i would try to get something like this:

nap1-10.00-10.30
nap2-1.30-3
7.30 bedtime

hth x

[laura034]

Hi I was just wondering how you got your little one to nap longer, my son is 12 months old and still has 3 20min naps it would be great to get them longer. Thanks Laura

[LucySol]

Laura i think you probably need your lo's routine tweaking to get some longer naps.
Why dont you post a new topic with his routine,there are a lot of people who will be able to help you xxxx

[margesimpson]

Lucysol I think you may be right. He actually has two molars coming and now he doesn't want to go in his cot at all, just wants to be cuddled. Will try the naptimes you suggested when the teething subsides. Thanks.
Laura I did PU/PD for a little while, that helped but when they are older it gets harder. The routine was the big thing that helped. I rang my maternal child heath hotline and they helped me tweak it. I also looked at the sample routines on here and printed them out for guidance. It gave me some idea of what to aim for.
I think the cause of the catnapping was lack of routine in the first place. From day 1 we were out with kinda drop offs etc for my 4yo, often this meant my baby getting his sleep disturbed. He learned that hey you only sleep for 20min then get woken up so thats how it works .
Good luck!